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Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial by Frank and Marian Cockrell, Dark Waters stars Merle Oberon as heiress Leslie Calvin, a woman with a neurotic aversion to water. This stems from the fact that in her childhood, Leslie was one of four survivors of a torpedoed steamship. Preying upon Leslie's fears, conniving Mr. Sydney (Thomas Mitchell), a guest at the Calvin family's Louisiana plantation, concocts a campaign of terror designed to drive the poor girl crazy so that he can claim her vast inheritance. Sydney and his ...
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Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial by Frank and Marian Cockrell, Dark Waters stars Merle Oberon as heiress Leslie Calvin, a woman with a neurotic aversion to water. This stems from the fact that in her childhood, Leslie was one of four survivors of a torpedoed steamship. Preying upon Leslie's fears, conniving Mr. Sydney (Thomas Mitchell), a guest at the Calvin family's Louisiana plantation, concocts a campaign of terror designed to drive the poor girl crazy so that he can claim her vast inheritance. Sydney and his cohorts also have the presence of mind to murder all of Leslie's closest relatives, leaving her utterly helpless. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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New. 0886470195565 The dank and forbidding regions of the Louisiana bayous have always made excellent locales for melodramatic films. The heavy, oppressive vegetation, the ambient sense of maddening heat and the silence are perfect aids to mystery and violence on the screen. And that is one reason why Dark Waters...is a killer-diller of a thriller--it is set in the Louisiana bayous. It also presents a creepy story with mild psychological overtones and it is neatly produced and directed--and well played by an excellent cast....what it comes down to is tingling diversion for the latter part of an hour and a half....Andre De Toth has directed nicely for mysterious moods and cold suspense, and Benedict Bogeaus has produced the whole show for strictly A-picture tone...(The New York Times, November 22, 1944)

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New. Brand new in original shrinkwrap; NTSC Region 1 formatting for playback in the US & Canada; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated, we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment (that can easily be removed upon receipt of your order)